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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, [b]MIT is a reach for everyone.[/b]

My super high stats kid thought their super high stats (like perfect SAT score and almost a 5.0 weighted)  would help them get into MIT, CMU, GATech etc.. Nope.
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Not really. If you won IMO gold, MIT is actually a target (not safety).[/quote]

Please stop with this. And stop saying Emory or U Mich are safeties. Even if statements like this are true, which is highly debatable, they might apply to 100 kids across the country. The Top 25 national universities, and yes, even the top 15-20 LACs are crazy tough admits in RD. Kids get their feelings hurt all the time when a school they thought they were locks for gives them the Heisman in RD. All
these schools are building their classes at that point and your 1550/4.5 weighted is not nearly as charming as you think it is. Do yourself a favor and find 1 or 2 schools with a 30+% acceptance rate that your kid could live with for targets. Lehigh or William and Mary, for example. (Nova people don’t kill me.) Same for a true, almost open enrollment school for a real safety. Indiana, for example has a super high acceptance rate but people love it and it has many respected programs. Build your list properly and then do all the prestige hunting you desire. It needn’t cost a ton more in app fees. [/quote]

Yet there are students who may not be IMO Gold and thus (i agree with PP) MIT is a target, but have all the other top stats plus awards/recognition that are not quite IMO Gold level but are impressive, with "top few in career" level recs who get into multiple T10s unhooked in RD. There are more than 100 kids like this. They do exist even if you have not met one. Emory and Umich are indeed >75% admission and "backup" schools in RD for these students.[/quote]

OK, I guess I’m a peasant and not running in the proper circles where kids are being tiger mommed so hard that their credentials are such that MIT is a target for them. Good for them. Please share with us how their experience is relevant to a wider audience.[/quote]

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